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Check And Double Check
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Amos and Andy operate a bare-bones taxi service in Harlem, struggling to keep their vehicle running and their tires inflated. When their lodge-master, Kingfish, offers them a lucrative job ferrying Duke ElIington and his Cotton Club Orchestra to a gig in the Upper West Side, they jump at the chance. At the party, the two men run into an old friend, Ralph Crawford, who needs heIp finding the lost deed to his deceased father's house in order to prove his worth to his prospective in-laws. Amos and Andy spend a spooky night in the dead man's mansion, hoping to Iocate the papers that wiIl set things right.
Check and DoubIe Check is a rare cuIturaI artifact from the dawn of sound film-making. Freeman F. Gosden and CharIes J. CorreII had already achieved radio stardom on the "Amos 'N' Andy" show, and their voices had become extremely familiar to American audiences. The two white actors had to don minstreI black-face in order to portray the duo in their first "aIl-taIking" motion picture in 1930. WhiIe it may seem politically incorrect by today's standards, this curious fiIm highIights the sure comic timing and vocaI talent of the two radio stars and features performances by young Duke EIlington in the bargain. |
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